Evil Cowboy Tale.

I am Half way through finishing Cormack Mccarthy’s satanic cowboy tale(Blood Meridian) taking place in the late 1840’s in Mexico and Texas region of North America.McCarthy’s story follows a group of US mercenaries who get paid to scalp Indians by Mexican authorities.McCarthy has mentioned Churches’ and priests at least 8 different times in the story, sometimes the churches are destroyed, sometimes the religious people are shown in a less than flattering light.Mccarthy has a tremendous arcane vocabulary, and can paint vivid hallucinogenic images of scenery.McCarthy also seems to have much knowledge of geology and plants.A great line from the book page 163

“In the smoking dawn the party riding ragged and bloody with their baled peltries looked less like victors than the harried after-guard of some ruined army retreating across the meridians of chaos”.